“Hey, Mom, Ariel would like something sweet,” Adley called. Adley smiled at the way her mom perked up and ran toward the kitchen. In moments, she was back in front of Ariel with an assortment of her baked goods.
“I have different muffins, and then I got worried the guys were going to eat everything before you all showed up, so I made these cookies,” Judith said.
Ariel reached for a cookie, but before she could get it, Tack was there.
“Hey, cookies,” Tack said, reachingfor one.
“You touch those cookies before Ariel picks the ones she wants, you’ll be walking funny, boy,” Ruthy called. “You can have first pick when you’re supplying the next generation of Saint’s Outlaws. Until then, you wait your turn.”
Adley snickered along with Ariel and Judith. Ariel grabbed a cookie and bit into it.
“This is so good. Thank you, Judith,” Ariel said, leaning back.
“Does that mean it’s my turn with little Teddy?” Judith asked.
Adley chuckled and handed Teddy to her mom and grabbed the tray to take over to Pit and Justice.
“Hey,” Tack whined.
“It’s not my rule. I’m just following your mom’s rules,” Adley said, chuckling at Tack’s pouting.
“I don’t think I ever imagined a one-percenter biker pouting. Does it happen a lot?” Adley asked.
Pit chuckled and took a couple of cookies. “You’d be surprised at how often.”
Justice pulled Adley down onto his lap, getting two cookies and handing one to her.
“Hmm, this seems new,” Pit commented.
“Well, we were trying to get to know each other when you came home early,” Justice whined.
“See, more often than you’d think, I hear whining from them,” Pit said, with a smirk.
Adley ate her cookie and stared around the room. These people, who she’d judged without knowing them, had offered her and her family safety. She needed to do her part to help keep them, especially the babies, safe too.
She thought through all the items she had on her list. Maybe she needed to go back further. What if Justice being brought in on charges wasn’t the first time the Saint’s Outlaws were targeted?
She’d been planning on having Macy do a deep dive into Gina Brown after Justice had told her about how he’d gone home with her. With all the things that had happened, she and Macy hadn’t ever gone over what, if anything, she’d found.
There were prospects in the room, and someone was supposed to be delivering lunch. While Pit and Ariel were lying down with Teddy for their nap, maybe she and Macy could look through what Macy had found out about Gina. Maybe all these things that she thought were random weren’t really random and were somethingmore insidious that had been in the works for a while.
“Food’s here,” FNG called as he and a couple other people walked in with catering bags to keep the food warm and started unloading them on the table. She’d eat and enjoy everyone’s company, and then she’d need some time to think. There were too many inconsistencies for this to not be something connected.
“Let’s get some food, babe,” Justice said, lifting her onto her feet and placing his hand at her back. Well, she’d concentrate on that unless Justice wanted to get to know each other better after lunch, and then she’d be up for whatever the man wanted because Adley wasn’t going to be the scared woman anymore. It was time to live her life.
Chapter Fourteen
Justice pulled his bike back into the compound along with Pit, Tack, Stinger, and Retread. Justice was furious and knew Pit was even more so. Just as Pit and Ariel had gotten settled to have their nap, they’d received a call from their gun store and range that the ATF was there to do a check.
As the club’s attorney, Justice had gone to meet with them, and the others had gone to make sure Pit, who was low on sleep, didn’t do something stupid.
When they arrived, Deputy Dawg, or DD as he was called most times, had looked at all of them as if they were crazy. The ATFweren’t at the gun range, and DD hadn’t placed the call.
It had been one of the newer prospects who said someone called the clubhouse phone and said the ATF was at the gun store. Justice figured he wouldn’t need to question the prospect because Pit was furious and probably wouldn’t give anyone else a chance.
Justice got off his bike and hurried to catch up with Pit, who was rushing through the door.
“FNG Two,” Pit yelled.